Apr
Caps for Sale
We have been having so much fun picking a book each week and doing activities based on that book. Our latest book was Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. We read the same book everyday, which is just what Hunter loves to do. Then, I plan art projects and various activities based on the story we read. Sometimes Hunter cooperates and wants to do the activities and other times he says he just wants to play. Here are some of the things we did:
Hailey read the book to Hunter and they both really enjoyed the story. We also found it on YouTube and Hunter liked watching it there when Hailey and I were not available to read it to him.
Hunter tried to balance a book on his head, the way the man in the story balanced the caps on his head. It was definitely harder than he thought it was going to be.
I went into Hunter’s room and came out with all of his hats on my head, holding a fake mustache, and saying, “Caps for sale! 50 cents a cap!” Hailey and Hunter thought it was pretty funny, so they both had to try it too.
Hailey selling some caps.
Hunter selling some caps.
In the story the monkeys take the caps away from the man. Monkeys eat bananas, so I wanted to come up with a banana snack to go along with the story. I saw the idea to make chocolate covered bananas at Delightful Learning. We didn’t follow her directions but they still turned out nice and yummy!
I also saw this idea at Delightful Learning. Hunter painted a tree brown,
then we glued it onto some paper, and he made monkeys using his fingerprints.
Hunter insisted that the tree needed the man and his caps- so we added those too.
We made this lapbook about monkeys last year in Tot School, so I pulled it back out and we had fun looking at all of the monkey activities he did.
Caps for Sale is cute book and we enjoyed reading it and doing all these fun activities!